Older guy wrote:
Crazy crazy stuff here wrote:Those federations and the IOC can't complain about a problem they instigated through inaction.
While I agree with your entire post, your final sentence, quoted here with a typo correction, has to be one of the greatest understatements I have even seen on the internet, or really, anywhere. I've said it again and again, here and elsewhere: No anti-PED program can be effective when those who own and/or run the sport, here the IOC, aren't fully committed to it. And yet the IOC has the gall to complain about the athletes protesting, when the problem directly results from the IOC's refusal to act, and the athletes themselves are harmed the most. But in the end, countries can send dopers to the Olympics, because if the IOC started banning entire countries, that would threaten the huge profit machine the Olympics have become.
Agree. It's fcking sad. I can see how athletes are frustrated. Lilly King. And Speak out.
The whole Russian team should not be there. The Paralympics execs got it right and made the right decision. You know, one crip, cheating against another crip is the lowest of lows. But, according to the IOC, it's okay for abled bodied athletes of a totally corrupt system and country to cheat against the world.